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Erebuni
The Erebuni fortress as it stood in 782 BC. Pass through the gate, enter the temple of Haldi and the throne hall, climb the walls. The plan comes from the excavations; the rest is reconstructed from scholarly sources.
Version 20b18 October 2026
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Updates
The game is updated almost every day.
20b
18 October 2026
Water where it belongs: in the citadel's stone basins, all the troughs and the two town wells. In the soldiers' rest room the hearth now stands on the clay floor, with the rugs around it.
19c
17 October 2026
The hill now looks like the real Arin Berd: grassy slopes, dark tuff ledges under the walls. People walk naturally, with no twitching.
19b
17 October 2026
Pastures around the fortress and a rocky fortress hill.
19
17 October 2026
The lower town: 103 houses, 30 lanes, squares with wells, orchards, 1,239 trees and 52 new townspeople.
18
17 October 2026
A gatehouse at the main entrance, rebuilt inner walls and a fully blue Temple of Susi.
17
17 October 2026
22 towers and stepped Urartian battlements along the whole wall.
The film
Erebuni-Yerevan 2808. The founding of the fortress in a one-minute film.
Reconstruction
Brick by brick
- Today only the foundations of the walls remain on Arin Berd.
- The plan comes from the excavations. The upper walls, towers and roofs are reconstructed.
- The result is a complete 3D fortress where you can walk through every courtyard and hall.
- From the excavations
- Plan, wall thickness, doorways, stone foundations
- Reconstructed
- Upper walls, towers, roofs, furniture, daily life
Today and 782 BC
The Arin Berd hill today, and from the same angle in the 3D model. Move the slider.
Today782 BCSources
- AMA100 — Erebuni (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography NAS RA / AUA)
- Lori Khatchadourian, Imperial Matter, UC Press, 2016 — plan by Adam T. Smith (fig. 17)
- Stronach, Thrane, Goff, Farahani, Grekyan — Erebuni 2008–2010
- Ruben Sargsyan — reconstructions of Urartian fortresses (2025)
- ICOMOS / RCCHD — Erebouni Fortress: an Example of an Endangered Heritage
- Pushkin Museum — conservation of the Erebuni wall paintings
- UNESCO — The Urartian Heritage of Yerevan (tentative list)
- Yerevan Municipality — Armenian–French excavations, 2021